BELLAIRE — After 10 years, Bellaire Public Library now has opened its Local History Center and Bellaire Room in hopes of preserving local history.

“We are honoring the spirit of this town and the hands and hearts that built it,” library director Erin Rothenbuehler said.

She added that the reason it took a decade of work is due to the vast amount of materials the library had to collect and sort through, as well as creating an area in the building that would be suitable to store the historic materials.

“Once that was identified, then we had to go through the renovation process to try to give it the security and climate control issues that you need with older materials, and then moving the materials,” Rothenbuehler said. “Then we had to find funding and find a staff member who was able to

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